netdev - Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

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Message-Id: <20070919.091510.00787167.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	drepper@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:21:47 -0700

> If you think the POSIX spec is wrong (and can point to other
> implementations doing the same as Linux) let me know and I'll work on
> getting the spec changed.

The whole AF_UNSPEC thing I'm almost certain comes from BSD, which has
behaved that way for centuries.

Someone needs to cull through Steven's Volume 2 to verify this, I'm
too busy at the moment to do so myself.
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